KILLER Adam Swellings had a three-year history of crime including assault, battery and intimidation before he murdered Garry Newlove in August last year.

Swellings, 19, was moved to Crewe to live with his mother, Susan, a former nursery nurse, and taxi-driver stepfather Stephen Swellings, at their home in Meredith Street, in 2006.

Magistrates demanded that Swellings remain at the Crewe address, be made to wear an electronic tag, and not leave the house between 8pm and 7am each day.

During his time in Crewe, he never worked, and despite apparently being forced to remain at his mother’s address, often went back to his home- town to meet his brutal gang.

When arrested on suspicion of Mr Newlove’s murder, jobless Swellings admitted to detectives that he had bought the alcohol which fuelled his violent attack with his dole money.

He had his first brush with the law in April 2005, when he was detained for allegedly making a hoax bomb threat.

In June 2006, he was convicted of battery and harassment, before going on to breach four times a harassment order that forbade him from approaching the 17-yearold daughter of a police inspector whom he had taken to following and threatening.

He appeared at Warrington Magistrates Court in November 2006 for the four breaches and was remanded in custody, only to be released on bail on December 1, 2006.

On August 1, 2007, just nine days before he and 17-year-old Stephen Sorton, of Honister Avenue, Warrington, and 16year-old Jordan Cunliffe, formerly of Rowland Close, Warrington, killed father-of-three Garry Newlove outside his home in Station Road North, Warrington, Swellings attacked another Warrington man outside his home.

He was in breach of his bail condition not to enter Warrington and attempted to obstruct a police officer. Magistrates remanded him in custody, but nine days later decided to release him on bail. Just 10 hours later he would kick and punch Mr Newlove to death in front of his young daughters.

The 17-year-old girl who had lived in fear of Swellings said she was worried he would attack her, or even kill her, and that she was beaten by the teen thug and his gang after she gave evidence following his attack on one of her school friends.

She said: “I hate him. He’s a low-life who deserves every- thing he gets, and now I want him to rot in jail.

“I just hope that one day he’ll realise what a complete waste of space he is.”